Biden’s friend talks about Obama’s Department of Justice in old interview.
Former U.S. Senator and close ally of President Biden, Ted Kaufman, recently made headlines by acknowledging that the Department of Justice was “full of Biden people” during the Obama administration. This revelation has sparked controversy and raised concerns about the impartiality of Biden’s DOJ in ongoing high-profile investigations.
Kaufman openly stated, “I mean full of Biden people. If you want a list of where Biden people are, there are a whole bunch of people in the Justice Department, and a whole bunch of them in our foreign policy establishment, and a whole bunch of them in the White House, OMB, and places like that.”
He further elaborated on this by saying, “But since financial reform wasn’t one of his major interests, he didn’t have people in it. Although I must say, after I left the Senate I was offered two major positions in the financial area of the administration which I turned down.” Kaufman continued, “He would have had one person in the financial area if I had not decided that my time of full-time employment days was over and that I had a different view of where I was going to go.”
Kaufman has a long-standing relationship with President Biden, dating back to the early 1970s when they first met. Biden’s sister, Valerie, recruited Kaufman to join Biden’s Senate campaign in 1972, and later, Kaufman became Biden’s chief of staff during his Senate years, serving for 22 years.
In 2008, Kaufman was appointed to fill Biden’s Senate seat when he became Vice President under Obama. He served in that capacity for about a year before being succeeded by current Senator Chris Coons.
During Biden’s 2020 transition, Kaufman played a key role and was dubbed by Politico as the man who “literally wrote the laws on presidential transitions.” Living just minutes away from Biden’s Delaware residence, Kaufman was believed to have significant influence over a potential Biden administration.
In response to criticisms on Biden’s job creation record compared to Trump’s, Bates, a spokesperson for Biden, stated that Biden achieved unprecedented job creation and the biggest reduction in violent crime in 50 years, following the Trump Administration’s job losses and rise in crime rate.
The resurgence of Kaufman’s remarks coincides with the ongoing high-profile investigations involving former President Donald Trump and Biden’s son, Hunter. Conservatives have raised concerns about the alleged political motivations behind these investigations, attributing them to Biden’s partisan allies within the DOJ.
Rep. Lance Gooden from Texas recently sent a letter to the DOJ and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, criticizing the hiring of Michael Colangelo for his involvement in the case against Trump. Colangelo, a former official at Biden’s DOJ, subsequently joined the DA’s office and participated in efforts to charge Trump with falsifying business records.
Donald Trump Jr. defended his father against what he perceived as politically motivated attacks orchestrated by Biden and his allies within the DOJ. He accused them of attempting to thwart his father’s chances of reclaiming the presidency and transforming America into a “Banana Republic.”
Despite the criticisms and allegations of bias, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads the DOJ under Biden, refuted claims of political interference. Garland stressed that the DOJ follows the facts and the law without influence from political considerations. He emphasized the appointment of career prosecutors to ensure impartiality in their investigations.
As controversies surrounding the impartiality of Biden’s DOJ persist, the public remains divided on the extent of political influence within the Department and its implications on ongoing investigations.
